By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
However, this will be a first for Olimpia Milano, because no other player in the past has used this number. The club issued the following press release on the matter:
Agent Zero was Gilbert Arenas’ nickname, when he was the devastating bomber of the Washington Wizards a decade ago. Agent Zero was the nickname of Andrew Goudelock when he went to the Lakers and a little bit before Luke Walton invented Mini-Mamba and Kobe Bryant adopted the nickname. Number 0 wanted to be a sort of restart after spending four year at the College of Charleston four years. Back then, Goudelock wore Number 3 and it was Kazan’s number 30 later. After that, he remained faithful to the 0 that now identifies him. Entering the new season he will be the first number 0 in the history of Olimpia.
Jordan Theodore will wear the number 25 which he wore during the great seasons he had at Fraport and Bandirma. 25 was also the first Milanese number of Alessandro Gentile: when he arrived at Olimpia the number 5 was belonging to Jacopo Giachetti. Theodore discovered the 25 in Europe: at Seton Hall he had played with the 10 and the 1.
Marco Cusin chose number 22, which in the past was the number of JR Bremer. Simone Fontecchio has returned to his original number 13. It has always been his number since childhood and kept it in Bologna. When he arrived in Milan the 13 was taken by Milan Macvan and he had chosen the 2 for the first time. After Macvan left, he quickly returned to the past. He will be Olimpia’s 13 in the new season, a number that in history was worn by Giando Ongaro, Paolo Bianchi, Ken Barlow and Ricky Brown.